It is about time I learned “The Queen of the Rushes”, I thought. I have heard this on a tape of Boys of the Lough, and it’s also on Planxty’s “Words & Music”. I picked up the ABC from the Session, downloaded it and printed off the dots. It was a day or two before I got a chance to look at it properly. Boy, that’s a long one! It’s longer than “The Bucks” and that has no repeats. Never mind. If you don’t learn the long ones, what are you going to do; tell people “No, that’s too long for me,” when you used to be able to play “The Entertainer” by heart? So I buckled down and more-or-less have it, after a couple of weeks (that’s a long time!) . So I was copying the ABC from one file to another when I noticed it: “Variation by Gianmarco”! Nuts! The fact that it has a variation doesn’t print out on the sheet music had me fooled – and I must have been in too much of a hurry to notice the variation, which was to far down to appear in the little ABC window on Navigator.
Now I have entire files of the seven or eight variations to “Drowsy Maggie” and another file of the time I confused “Da Full Rigged Ship” with “Da New Rigged Ship” but this one got past me. In future I’m going to put the “variations by…” in quotes, so it prints out like the Guitar Chords. So I do know “The Queen of the Rushes” even when I thought I didn’t. But I feel like an Eejit. Just thought I’d share that with you. Bet nobody else has done this.
Aye, Sam, the Little Cascade is long enough, but it doesn't have a long variation that a careless individual might take as part and parcel of the whole thing. (Thereby doubling its length.)
The Little Cascade - "A beast" right enough! - & yet, doesn't it have such an innocent sounding little name. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a simple little childs tune, like say Twinkle Twinkle!
Who was it first said - "You can't judge a book by the cover"?
If you think that's bad, you should try playing the 'High Road to Linton' over here in 'Erin the Green'. When you play the whole tune THREE times you get strange looks from folk cause they think you've just played it SIX times, cause they only know the first two parts! OK the third & fourth are probably only variations, but the FOUR part version is such a standard in 'Good Auld Scotia' that it's hard to go back to just playing the first two parts!
More Haste Less Speed
More Haste Less Speed
It is about time I learned “The Queen of the Rushes”, I thought. I have heard this on a tape of Boys of the Lough, and it’s also on Planxty’s “Words & Music”. I picked up the ABC from the Session, downloaded it and printed off the dots. It was a day or two before I got a chance to look at it properly. Boy, that’s a long one! It’s longer than “The Bucks” and that has no repeats. Never mind. If you don’t learn the long ones, what are you going to do; tell people “No, that’s too long for me,” when you used to be able to play “The Entertainer” by heart? So I buckled down and more-or-less have it, after a couple of weeks (that’s a long time!) . So I was copying the ABC from one file to another when I noticed it: “Variation by Gianmarco”! Nuts! The fact that it has a variation doesn’t print out on the sheet music had me fooled – and I must have been in too much of a hurry to notice the variation, which was to far down to appear in the little ABC window on Navigator.
Now I have entire files of the seven or eight variations to “Drowsy Maggie” and another file of the time I confused “Da Full Rigged Ship” with “Da New Rigged Ship” but this one got past me. In future I’m going to put the “variations by…” in quotes, so it prints out like the Guitar Chords. So I do know “The Queen of the Rushes” even when I thought I didn’t. But I feel like an Eejit. Just thought I’d share that with you. Bet nobody else has done this.
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: More Haste Less Speed
I play it as 3 parts, but a fourth up from the notes here. Dunno why. If you like a long one (oo-er missus) try the Old Grey Goose.
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by LastToFinish
Re: More Haste Less Speed
Yeah same here:
i'm trying to learn the little cascade
http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1368
A beast!
Cheers,
Sam
P.s. Some of the really nice tunes happpen to have a load of bars in them.
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by flamin fiddler
Re: More Haste Less Speed
Aye, Sam, the Little Cascade is long enough, but it doesn't have a long variation that a careless individual might take as part and parcel of the whole thing. (Thereby doubling its length.)
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: More Haste Less Speed
Paul, you are clearly not the only aged and decrepit one.
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: More Haste Less Speed
The Little Cascade - "A beast" right enough! - & yet, doesn't it have such an innocent sounding little name. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a simple little childs tune, like say Twinkle Twinkle!
Who was it first said - "You can't judge a book by the cover"?
If you think that's bad, you should try playing the 'High Road to Linton' over here in 'Erin the Green'. When you play the whole tune THREE times you get strange looks from folk cause they think you've just played it SIX times, cause they only know the first two parts! OK the third & fourth are probably only variations, but the FOUR part version is such a standard in 'Good Auld Scotia' that it's hard to go back to just playing the first two parts!
# Posted on September 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan